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Until at last January 2007, already 253 persons of 15.778 cases pass away as the consequence of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever disease. On February until February 14, 2007, Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever has killed 54 persons of 4.638 cases (beside this is a picture spreading circle of DHF) .Fatality case rate of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) is grouped highly because until at this time there is not medicine or vaccine to prevent it yet. The accurate methods to prevent this disease are avoiding mosquito bite and fight against the mosquito nest. Because the mosquito spreader of DHF be present our around, then the active mosquito nest fighting must be enforced by community by watching the cleaning house and environment continuously. DHF be spread pass through of mosquito bite of Aedes Aegypti. These mosquitoes bite at daylight by increasing bite activity two hours after sunrise and some hours before sunset. DHF is not spread directly from person to person.After a people is bitten by Aedes Aegypti mosquito approximately 3-14 days later (generally 4-7 days) a people will indicate the symptoms or signs of DHF like as: Fever with body temperature more than 38 degree Celsius, Weakness, Appear red spot on the body, Nervous, feeling cool on end of hand and foot, Stomach-ache and vomiting, Its can be followed by bleeding like nose bleeding and bowel bleeding, and Thrombocytopenia.
To help a person who already indicate the symptom of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever disease can be did the action like: please give drinks cooked waters (tea or fruit) more and more, cooling compress on the body of sufferer, and please give medicine to decease hot of body and if a sufferer has convulsion history give anti convulsion medicine too.Until at this time, there is not medicine or vaccine to prevent DHF yet. The potent methods to prevent this disease are avoiding mosquito bite and mosquito nest fighting. Mosquito nest fighting can be enforced to break reproduction chain of Aedes Aegypti mosquito by some actions: Cleaningthewater reservoir and place where the waters is filled minimal once a week like bath container, large water jar, flower vase, bird beverage place, and others. For big container by sow with abate powders; Dense cover all places where can intercept and retain falling rain water; graving ex-things like as: ex-ban, bottle ex-beverage, plastic that can intercept and retain falling rain water; plus other methods like substitution the water of flower vase once a week, repairing the water flow and gutter those have damaged, covering holes on a cut of bamboo / wood by earth.Important to be remembered:Better preventive than curative of Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever.